Cisco consumed Linksys, continuing the grand tradition of the larger corporation swallowing the smaller, more nimble one in order to eliminate the threat the latter's better, smaller, faster, and cheaper [whatever hardware/software] and superior customer service posed.
Closer to the truth than you think. The entity that ends up either controlling or corrupting such a "cloud" wins, hands down. Unlimited access to everybody's plans, secrets, and even dirty little secrets - especially the dirty little secrets...I can think of a number of governments and corporations that must be positively drooling at the prospect.
...of modem tones, and the joy abandoning a 300 baud modem for the blazing speed of my first 1200 baud modem...
But still irksome because, being a vet, I was accustomed to 50 Kbps and faster - much faster, in the case of some DARPA gear - and could not believe how slow things were in the "civilian" world. Yet I couldn't get hired by Ma Bell, 'cuz I wasn't allowed to talk about what I had actually worked with, and so had to sit silently fuming as the civvy engineers patronized me before turning me down due to "lack of experience". Thus began decades of hurry up and wait - in all meanings possible - for the 'net.
A(nother?) boring anecdote: One night someplace on the other side of the planet, I abused my power and had a circuit patched up literally around the world. I could pound a sentence into one keyboard, and then kick the wall and glide my chair 12 feet away and watch it come in on another teletype. lollll...the speed of electromagnetic propagation as an impractical exercise.
So did Carlos Slim Helú get the exclusive distribution and consulting rights for all of the major database and hardware vendors' products in Mexico or something?
I hope this new version of Windows isn't again designed to force instant hardware obsolescence. I become disturbed when an O/S developer attempts to force me to buy new systems when the primary enhancement the O/S offers - to anybody with a modicum of security awareness and technical expertise - is a prettier GUI.
After all, I wouldn't buy paint that requires me to build a new house around it.
I have concluded that observing that even the possibility of global warming should be a matter of great concern is pointless when you are dealing with people who believe that all problems relating to the melting of ice can be corrected by adjusting your gin to vermouth ratio.
Rupert Murdoch has assaulted Australia's government for not spending enough money, for instance to give Australians widespread broadband access.
Rupert Murdoch owns News Corp.
Seemingly paradoxically, News Corp.'s various American media outlets delight in agitating against any Federal spending that might keep the U.S. on the cutting edge, technology or any other -wise
Rupert Murdoch is a loyal Australian
Hewlett-Packard has caved on the CSIRO lawsuit
Mark Hurd is HP's Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
News Corp.'s board of directors counts among its members one each Mark Hurd
And all over the world, plans to extend internet access to the world's poorer regions are shelved at the prospect of the additional cost of yet another layer of royalty payments...
...if you mess with powerful people, they may burn you. If you don't mess with powerful people, however, they will know that they can mess with you with impunity and you will see your democracy become first an aristocracy and subsequently either a feudal or totalitarian state.
Your choice: Personal risk, or national disaster. To surf the 'net, or be a serf: That is the question.
Rather, they run outside, discover that it is cold, and then retrieve the memory of where their jacket is, and then they go get it.
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Rather, they run outside, discover that it is cold, and then retrieve the memory of where their jacket is, and then they go get it. And, fifteen minutes later, they try to remember why they put their jacket on.
Their legal climate is such that AIG's London office can burn half a trillion dollars and endanger economies all over the globe - but, rather than be mature and responsible citizens of the world, the Brit government would rather focus on chasing down Joe Cockney to make sure that he can never buy another pint if he dares to say something that offends someone of sufficient importance.
Say, someone important enough to work in AIG's London office.
I bet you King John is gleefuly roaming the halls of England's castles, using ghostly copies of the Magna Carta in their guarderooms.
I remember that Bill. That was the one that made me decide the Republicans had to go across the board no matter how hard I had to work at it or how much money it cost me - because if they were willing to make me pay for the weather, what was going to stop them from making me pay for the air?
It was getting way too "Total Recall" out. The Republicans had/have totally lost track of the fact that - whether you call it a "tax" or "profit" - when you take and take and take from the people, you are the people's enemy.
The way things work now, the only time "the People" have any power over the corporate/political and governmental entities who seek to exploit and abuse us is when an election day rolls around. The conclusion you can easily draw from that is that we need more election days - more days when, if the actions of a corporate or government entity become unbearable, we can take action immediately.
Further, if you have not noticed the courts are increasingly biased in their opinions in that the larger and the more well-defined the entity who is before them, the more likely that entity is to win. Worse yet, but again quite noticeably, the law as practiced and adjudged now shields the members of corporations from most of the responsibility for their actions, no matter how corrupt or heinous those actions are. Not so the individual, who - even when absolutely innocent and clearly in the right - can be crushed by the sheer weight of legal torts and talent that the corporations can afford to bring to bear.
So, "the People" - or as many as can be convinced - incorporate. We all provide ten or $100 apiece as "start-up capital". At a minimum, we suddenly have a sizable war chest with which to pursue those - whether political or corporate in nature - who are most egregious about harming seemingly defenseless "individuals" and trampling the liberties the "individual" should have by virtue of merely having been born into the human race.
More importantly, however, we begin to make decisions - and apply the actions those decisions call for - like a corporation - instantly. We are suddenly transformed from "individuals" who can be isolated and abused as individuals by the corporations and the politicians that they own, into a monstrous entity that can fight back instantly if we are provoked or harmed.
For instance, we The People, Inc.,, upon receiving email communications from our "board of directors" immediately drop "suppliers" of consumer goods who act in a manner that harms sufficient numbers of us, or in a manner that a sufficient number of us feel is just wrong.
You get the idea. To summarize:
Our governments are increasingly representative of corporate and "business" interests, only
Hence we, The People, should incorporate, and not only regain the attention of our government, but give ourselves the power to slap those corporations and groups who would abuse us down - hard and legally
Of course, we probably would have to take steps to ensure that our "board of directors" did not become corrupt by making service on same both mandatory and of a limited duration, but hey - think how having been a member of the board of directors of "The People, Inc. " will look on your resume.
And sure - this is only an end run around the failure of our governments to represent "The People". But there is truth to the adage: If you can't beat them, join them - and then you can beat them from the inside.
One of the REAL powers behind the throne. Little happens, that does not gain the approval of or is not at the behest of the insurance industry. For instance, if every American is required by law to pay the insurance industry health care premiums, we will have national health care.
If not, not.
While they are unlikely to do anything to make health care better, cheaper, and more readily available - quite the contrary, in fact - they will get their pound of flesh.
Nor will anybody who offshores support, I wouldn't think. It hasn't been more than 72 hours since the last time I saw an on-line post from somebody far, far away from my dungeon asking for advice on how to deal with a particular type of data - using the real data as the example in his question.
Data and networks supported from afar by people who only have a financial interest - and a weak one, at that - in their security are inherently insecure.
I can confirm that; my experiences in three Asian nations also had to incorporate bribery as a way of life. I think may of our corporate chieftains revel in offshoring to those nations for exactly that reason, in fact; becoming a wheel offshore is personally very lucrative.
Any time that you can verify after you leave the polling place which way your vote was recorded... so can someone else. And that can lead to very serious consequences. Loss of job, family, the stakes are endless.
"Informative" sometimes just doesn't get it; you need something like "Horrific Truth" for such as this.
...over the last two decades, Shell merely concluded - correctly - that renewable energy did not offer the ROI that buying an American Presidency does.
We believe that we are ordained by god to serve no other function than to move money around.
No, that is just the people who have all of the money that believe that, because they think "work" is beneath them. The rest of us, stuck here in reality where you have to have a real job to survive, know better.
Unfortunately, because they do have all of the money - and thus the power to create jobs - the rest of us who need jobs to live are simply screwed.
The rest of us will waste away together, and the last thing we'll hear is hymns of praise to "free trade" being sung by that aforementioned teeny, tiny subset of people.
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Cisco consumed Linksys, continuing the grand tradition of the larger corporation swallowing the smaller, more nimble one in order to eliminate the threat the latter's better, smaller, faster, and cheaper [whatever hardware/software] and superior customer service posed.
Of course, I still mourn for DEC...
Closer to the truth than you think. The entity that ends up either controlling or corrupting such a "cloud" wins, hands down. Unlimited access to everybody's plans, secrets, and even dirty little secrets - especially the dirty little secrets...I can think of a number of governments and corporations that must be positively drooling at the prospect.
...of modem tones, and the joy abandoning a 300 baud modem for the blazing speed of my first 1200 baud modem...
But still irksome because, being a vet, I was accustomed to 50 Kbps and faster - much faster, in the case of some DARPA gear - and could not believe how slow things were in the "civilian" world. Yet I couldn't get hired by Ma Bell, 'cuz I wasn't allowed to talk about what I had actually worked with, and so had to sit silently fuming as the civvy engineers patronized me before turning me down due to "lack of experience". Thus began decades of hurry up and wait - in all meanings possible - for the 'net.
A(nother?) boring anecdote: One night someplace on the other side of the planet, I abused my power and had a circuit patched up literally around the world. I could pound a sentence into one keyboard, and then kick the wall and glide my chair 12 feet away and watch it come in on another teletype. lollll...the speed of electromagnetic propagation as an impractical exercise.
So did Carlos Slim Helú get the exclusive distribution and consulting rights for all of the major database and hardware vendors' products in Mexico or something?
OMG. They have a whole office - or cell? - of people locally who match that description - they even boast of their "agents".
Do you suppose "Humans Enraged at Reality" is what the "HER" stands for in HER Realty?
I hope this new version of Windows isn't again designed to force instant hardware obsolescence. I become disturbed when an O/S developer attempts to force me to buy new systems when the primary enhancement the O/S offers - to anybody with a modicum of security awareness and technical expertise - is a prettier GUI.
After all, I wouldn't buy paint that requires me to build a new house around it.
This can be a pain if your executable must load entirely into a tiny RAM
Now I know our nation has too sedentary of a lifestyle...we won't even break out the assembler lest we have to JMP up and break a sweat.
I have concluded that observing that even the possibility of global warming should be a matter of great concern is pointless when you are dealing with people who believe that all problems relating to the melting of ice can be corrected by adjusting your gin to vermouth ratio.
How quaint! Most of the rest of the nation has simplified the process down to "He who can buy the most legislators, wins." It is very efficient.
And all over the world, plans to extend internet access to the world's poorer regions are shelved at the prospect of the additional cost of yet another layer of royalty payments...
...if you mess with powerful people, they may burn you. If you don't mess with powerful people, however, they will know that they can mess with you with impunity and you will see your democracy become first an aristocracy and subsequently either a feudal or totalitarian state.
Your choice: Personal risk, or national disaster. To surf the 'net, or be a serf: That is the question.
Rather, they run outside, discover that it is cold, and then retrieve the memory of where their jacket is, and then they go get it.
becomes
Rather, they run outside, discover that it is cold, and then retrieve the memory of where their jacket is, and then they go get it. And, fifteen minutes later, they try to remember why they put their jacket on.
You have to feel for the Brits.
Their legal climate is such that AIG's London office can burn half a trillion dollars and endanger economies all over the globe - but, rather than be mature and responsible citizens of the world, the Brit government would rather focus on chasing down Joe Cockney to make sure that he can never buy another pint if he dares to say something that offends someone of sufficient importance.
Say, someone important enough to work in AIG's London office.
I bet you King John is gleefuly roaming the halls of England's castles, using ghostly copies of the Magna Carta in their guarderooms.
Somebody.decided.that.the.period.was.way.underused.
I remember that Bill. That was the one that made me decide the Republicans had to go across the board no matter how hard I had to work at it or how much money it cost me - because if they were willing to make me pay for the weather, what was going to stop them from making me pay for the air?
It was getting way too "Total Recall" out. The Republicans had/have totally lost track of the fact that - whether you call it a "tax" or "profit" - when you take and take and take from the people, you are the people's enemy.
See - capitalism DOES promote democracy!
The way things work now, the only time "the People" have any power over the corporate/political and governmental entities who seek to exploit and abuse us is when an election day rolls around. The conclusion you can easily draw from that is that we need more election days - more days when, if the actions of a corporate or government entity become unbearable, we can take action immediately.
Further, if you have not noticed the courts are increasingly biased in their opinions in that the larger and the more well-defined the entity who is before them, the more likely that entity is to win. Worse yet, but again quite noticeably, the law as practiced and adjudged now shields the members of corporations from most of the responsibility for their actions, no matter how corrupt or heinous those actions are. Not so the individual, who - even when absolutely innocent and clearly in the right - can be crushed by the sheer weight of legal torts and talent that the corporations can afford to bring to bear.
So, "the People" - or as many as can be convinced - incorporate. We all provide ten or $100 apiece as "start-up capital". At a minimum, we suddenly have a sizable war chest with which to pursue those - whether political or corporate in nature - who are most egregious about harming seemingly defenseless "individuals" and trampling the liberties the "individual" should have by virtue of merely having been born into the human race.
More importantly, however, we begin to make decisions - and apply the actions those decisions call for - like a corporation - instantly . We are suddenly transformed from "individuals" who can be isolated and abused as individuals by the corporations and the politicians that they own, into a monstrous entity that can fight back instantly if we are provoked or harmed.
For instance, we The People, Inc., , upon receiving email communications from our "board of directors" immediately drop "suppliers" of consumer goods who act in a manner that harms sufficient numbers of us, or in a manner that a sufficient number of us feel is just wrong.
You get the idea. To summarize:
Of course, we probably would have to take steps to ensure that our "board of directors" did not become corrupt by making service on same both mandatory and of a limited duration, but hey - think how having been a member of the board of directors of " The People, Inc. " will look on your resume.
And sure - this is only an end run around the failure of our governments to represent "The People". But there is truth to the adage: If you can't beat them, join them - and then you can beat them from the inside.
Severely, and with a stick, if necessary.
One of the REAL powers behind the throne. Little happens, that does not gain the approval of or is not at the behest of the insurance industry. For instance, if every American is required by law to pay the insurance industry health care premiums, we will have national health care.
If not, not.
While they are unlikely to do anything to make health care better, cheaper, and more readily available - quite the contrary, in fact - they will get their pound of flesh.
No matter how many politicians they have to buy.
Nor will anybody who offshores support, I wouldn't think. It hasn't been more than 72 hours since the last time I saw an on-line post from somebody far, far away from my dungeon asking for advice on how to deal with a particular type of data - using the real data as the example in his question.
Data and networks supported from afar by people who only have a financial interest - and a weak one, at that - in their security are inherently insecure.
I can confirm that; my experiences in three Asian nations also had to incorporate bribery as a way of life. I think may of our corporate chieftains revel in offshoring to those nations for exactly that reason, in fact; becoming a wheel offshore is personally very lucrative.
Any time that you can verify after you leave the polling place which way your vote was recorded ... so can someone else. And that can lead to very serious consequences. Loss of job, family, the stakes are endless.
"Informative" sometimes just doesn't get it; you need something like "Horrific Truth" for such as this.
...over the last two decades, Shell merely concluded - correctly - that renewable energy did not offer the ROI that buying an American Presidency does.
If the merger goes through, I would expect to see them using the Sun name to build Linux PCs in India that use Micro-Channel Architecture.
Find and eliminate any existing spam originators.
We believe that we are ordained by god to serve no other function than to move money around.
No, that is just the people who have all of the money that believe that, because they think "work" is beneath them. The rest of us, stuck here in reality where you have to have a real job to survive, know better.
Unfortunately, because they do have all of the money - and thus the power to create jobs - the rest of us who need jobs to live are simply screwed.
The rest of us will waste away together, and the last thing we'll hear is hymns of praise to "free trade" being sung by that aforementioned teeny, tiny subset of people.